In my ten years of activity I have increasingly taught learners who have been given the stigmatizing predicates dyscalculia, dyslexia or dyslexia in their school career. Not infrequently it turned out during the joint work that other plausible reasons for a lack of skills could be found. Reasons that could be interpreted as an explanation for such findings, but thus had an impact on a finding that turned out to be an obstacle to the further development of the individual.
With my knowledge, I would like to support you and your child with effective learning techniques.
SPECIAL EDUCATION
for kids from 12 and teenagers
With current test procedures, one can question whether the time horizon of the test procedure is not often too short, so that the tests show a limited view (daily form). The influence of special living conditions (such as a personal learning biography, family environment, etc.) of those affected are not given enough consideration in current tests.
It is helpful that learners with such findings receive additional support (free of charge in Switzerland). However, learning difficulties can persist and this condition is not given enough consideration in this set of instruments. Often you also risk missing important time windows where something could still have been achieved with alternative, more precisely tailored approaches.
The points mentioned speak in favor of not only promoting learners with effective, tailor-made lessons, but also sustainably strengthening students in their self-worth. This not only counteracts the threat of stigmatization, but also helps to transform the limiting and distorted view of one's own capacities.
It is also important to consider critically that such labels can have a massive impact on your child's self-worth.
Such verdicts can often block those affected and lead to a state of self-fulfilling prophecy. In addition, those affected later have to assert themselves in a work environment that does not care about such verdicts, but where only the performance counts.
SPECIAL EDUCATION
for kids from 12 and teenagers